GhostScreen 95

Your machine is a headless box: a server in a rack, a laptop with a broken screen, a workstation reached over RDP or Chrome Remote Desktop. No physical monitor — so Windows gives you no monitor at all.

• Remote sessions cap at a blurry 800x600 (or worse)
• Apps you know are fullscreen show a tiny centered window
• Games, design tools and media players refuse to render properly
• UI scaling makes everything look like a spreadsheet from 1993

You can't buy a monitor for a machine you'll never look at. So what do you do?

GhostScreen 95 installs a virtual display — a monitor that exists only in software — and dials in the resolution you choose:

…all at 60 Hz (the driver supports up to 4K). The OS thinks a beautiful monitor is plugged in. Remote clients happily render widescreen, full-HD sessions. Your headless rig behaves like a normal desktop — because, as far as Windows is concerned, it is one.

"A ghost screen. It's there. It isn't. Nobody knows. Windows loves it."

• One EXE, everything inside — driver, catalog, settings, tools. No installer, no leftovers.
• Windows 95 soul — a faithful '95-era UI. Gradient title bar, chiseled buttons, MS Sans Serif.
• Self-healing — detects a missing or stale driver, reinstalls, restarts the display, retries. Works on a fresh format.
• Zero internet — everything runs offline, from the EXE.
• Re-runnable — you formatted? Run it again. It's idempotent.
• 7 languages — italiano, español, français, deutsch, english, 中文, 日本語, auto-detected.
• Game Boy music — a chiptune plays while the magic happens. Mute it in File ▾.

• Headless servers managed over RDP — real resolution, real productivity
• Laptops with broken screens — the machine isn't dead, it just needs a phantom panel
• HTPCs attached to a TV that's often off — keep the desktop sane
• CI/CD and test labs — stable virtual displays for UI automation
• Remote work via Chrome Remote Desktop / AnyDesk / TeamViewer — crisp widescreen
• GPU farms and mining rigs — the software dummy plug

Six full stories: docs/CASE-STUDIES.md

1. Download the EXE · 2. Right-click → Run as administrator · 3. Pick your resolution · 4. Hit Install & Apply · Done. 🎩

Requires Windows 10/11 x64 and the built-in .NET Framework 4.x (preinstalled). MIT licensed.

GhostScreen 95 is crafted by Luigi Strazzullo for Culture Digitali Srl — with the '95-era honesty we all deserve.

Virtual display driver: MikeTheTech / Virtual-Display-Driver (MIT) · devcon.exe: Microsoft Windows Driver Kit · Everything else: original work.

License: MIT · Changelog: CHANGELOG.md · Product vision: PRODUCT.md · Source: GitHub